To hold up a microphone to our surroundings was once an entirely novel proposition. But in the 1950s, the Folkways label assigned itself the task of documenting the whole world of sound, and sharing ...

A bluegrass innovator, he recorded numerous albums as a leader, and his list of collaborators included both Leonard Bernstein ...

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One collection is the Moses and Frances Asch collection, which consists of original recordings, business records, correspondence and photographic material which came to the Smithsonian with the ...

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings playlists, Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement and Peace Songs of the 1960s, reveal the vibrancy of the genre.

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CHARLESTON — State Department of Arts, Culture and History Cabinet Secretary Randall Reid-Smith used one of the private ...

The concept of Industrial Strength Bluegrass continues to expand, this time literally in the form of a double vinyl collection of "Industrial Strength Bluegrass." The new edition, out today, May 3 by ...

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse will perform Saturday at Jazz Fest. Gambit's picks for the second Saturday out at Jazz Fest.